Kim Jun-Yop
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| Kim Jun-Yop | |
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| Hangul | 김준엽 |
| Hanja | 金俊燁 |
| Revised Romanization | Kim Jun-yeop |
| McCune–Reischauer | Kim Chun-yŏp |
Kim Jun-Yop (born 1920)[1] is a former president of Korea University, a noted historian focusing on China and North Korea issues.Kim declined a nomination from Roh Tae-woo to become Prime Minister of South Korea in 1990, preferring to stay in academia.
He attended National Central University (later renamed Nanjing University in mainland China and reinstated in Taiwan), majoring in history. He has served as visiting professors at Harvard University and Princeton University.
As of January 2005[update] Kim is chairman of the Institute of Social Sciences in Korea [2] and chairman of Dae Woo Educational Foundation. In December 2009 Kim was the recipient of the Korea Foundation Award.[2]
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- ^ Myers, Robert John (2001). Korea in the cross currents. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 58. http://books.google.ca/books?id=LNuyHvZsRqwC&pg=PA58&lpg=PA58&dq=%22Kim+Jun-Yop%22#v=onepage&q=%22Kim%20Jun-Yop%22&f=false.
- ^ a b "2nd Korea Foundation Award". Korea Foundation. January 2010. http://newsletter.kf.or.kr/english/contents.asp?vol=132&sec=132&lang=English&no=1704. Retrieved 13 July 2010.
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